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BOWIE COAL COMPANY PETITION

368 Pa. 102 (1951)

Bowie Coal Company Petition.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 27, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Stambaugh, Special Counsel, with him Emrys G. Francis and Robert E. Woodside, Jr., Attorney General, for appellant.

Matthew A. Crawford, with him Thomas D. Stauffer and John V. Wherry, for appellee.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL and LADNER, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, June 27, 1951:

The question involved in this appeal is a very narrow one: Did the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County or of Dauphin County have jurisdiction of the petition of the Bowie Coal Company?

Six partners trading as Bowie Coal Company are and had been for many years engaged in the mining of bituminous coal by the open pit mining method. On August 29, 1945, they registered with the Department of Mines. Their registration...

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